Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Erasmo Barbante Casella, Euripedes Constantino Miguel, Umbertina Conti Reed I Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Disciplina de Psiquiatria da Infância e Adolescência, São Paulo/SP, Brazil. II Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP) Instituto de Psiquiatria, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Psiq...

Objectives To investigate the effects of listening demands and motivation on effort (LE) in a novel speech recognition task.Design We manipulated using vocoded financial reward, respectively, measured task performance (correct response rate) indices LE (response times (RTs), subjective ratings likelihood giving up). Effects inter-individual differences cognitive skills personality were also ass...

This paper studies the performance improvement of IEEE 802.15.4 non-beacon-enabled mode originated by inclusion Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send (RTS/CTS) handshake mechanism resulting in frame concatenation. Under employing RTS/CTS, backoff procedure is not repeated for each data sent but only RTS/CTS set. The maximum throughput and minimum delay are mathematically derived both Chirp Spread Spect...

BACKGROUND This study advances the clinical development of the RTS,S/AS01B candidate malaria vaccine to malaria endemic populations. As a primary objective it compares the safety and reactogenicity of RTS,S/AS01B to the more extensively evaluated RTS,S/AS02A vaccine. METHODOLOGY A Phase IIb, single centre, double-blind, controlled trial of 6 months duration with a subsequent 6 month single-bl...

Safe regression test selection (RTS) techniques let software testers reduce the number of test cases that need to be rerun to revalidate new versions of software, while ensuring that no fault-revealing test case (in the existing test suite) is excluded. Most previous work on safe regression test selection has focused on speciic safe RTS algorithms, rather than addressing the theoretical foundat...

BACKGROUND Studies of non-health-care work environments indicate that non-managerial employee job satisfaction is higher in companies that use participative (as opposed to autocratic) decision making. It has not been determined whether managerial decision-making style influences job satisfaction among respiratory therapists (RTs) and which managerial decision-making style RTs prefer. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Previous trials of the RTS, S malaria candidate vaccine have shown that this vaccine is safe, tolerated and immunogenic. The development plan for this vaccine aims at administering it in the first year of life through the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). The objective was to evaluate the safety and reactogenicity of RTS, S/AS02D (0.5 ml dose), a pediatric formulation of GlaxoS...

Less than 50% of athletes pass criteria to return to sports (RTS) 6 months after ACL reconstruction (ACLR). Using data on 38 noncopers, we hypothesized that preoperative age, quadriceps strength index (QI), and knee flexion moments (KFM) during gait would predict the ability to pass/fail RTS criteria and that preoperative quadriceps strength gains would be predictive of passing RTS criteria. Ga...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a significant injury in National Basketball Association (NBA) players. HYPOTHESES NBA players undergoing ACL reconstruction (ACLR) have high rates of return to sport (RTS), with RTS the season following surgery, no difference in performance between pre- and postsurgery, and no difference in RTS rate or performance between cases (ACLR) and...